[4] Reviewing the English translation, Joanna Biggs praised the novel, calling it "compelling", and concluding that "the reader becomes as addicted to the unfolding drama as the narrator is".
Nazaryan also criticized the work, writing that "Garcia is fluent in the currents of thought that have animated recent French history, and he has the dexterity to be flippant and morbid within a single paragraph.
Though all four have plausibly prominent roles in French culture, at times it appears as if no other figures of consequence exist, with secondary characters strutting too quickly across the stage.
[8] Graham Harman, in a review of the French edition of Form and Object, claimed that it is "an intricate piece of work by an emerging philosopher who is now a force to reckon with".
Contrary to Garcia, following Alfred North Whitehead and Ray Brassier, Brown maintains that these two problems can never be separated: "Speculative philosophy sets out from and returns to the crossroads of metaphysics and epistemology; it has to travel both roads at once.
"[12] Ultimately, Brown concludes that "the originality and energy of Form and Object, and the lovely openness of the book's tone, make the differential, relational ontology it elaborates conceptually and affectively enticing.